Example sentences of "[vb past] shown him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she 'd shown him the book : a very rare volume indeed . |
| 2 | If he said to me , after I 'd shown him , that he understood it , I would say alright , show me how you do it . |
| 3 | The day she 'd shown him the photograph … |
| 4 | She had n't conceded anything , even though she 'd wanted to , and she 'd shown him she could be just as determined as he was himself . |
| 5 | She had shown him with pride to both her mother and grandmother and had carried him to bed more deeply satisfied than at any time since she had been weaned from Phoebe 's now forgotten breasts . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 7 | They were burial mounds , all tapering like the one Emily had shown him . |
| 8 | When he got two out on the flat of his hand as Nutty had shown him , Bones 's great motor-tyre lips closed over them , the rough skin scratching the ticklish palm . |
| 9 | The magazine had shown him in a ‘ compromising position ’ with Gypsy Granny . |
| 10 | Well , she had shown him she could n't be swayed by his good looks or his fancy words ; not any more . |
| 11 | Even a bare second had shown him the gauntness of her face , its pallor throwing the make-up into a strange relief , like those simulated three-dimensional photographs . |
| 12 | As his father had shown him jewels , so he showed them to Grégoire . |
| 13 | Stains on fabric and leather had yielded to chemical analysis to reveal the exact chemical components of the explosive ; the extent of burn- and impact-deterioration had shown him how much was used , where it had been placed and how it had been triggered . |
| 14 | She was not like the Glasgow woman , who had shown him out into the street . |
| 15 | Now Mr Albert , with more ability than Hank thought such an old fogey could exhibit , had shown him that he could look quite as dignified as Captain Dawson , not a bent peasant like Grandfather Palichuk or a rugged , outdoor type like his father , but a very respectable townsman called Hank Stych . |
| 16 | I 'll never forget the expression on his face , it was like someone had shown him a ghost . |
| 17 | The Captain called back the guard who had shown him out : ‘ Ask the Brigadier to come in , will you ? ’ |
| 18 | It could have been the second , but he had swallowed his pride when they had shown him the room that was allocated him . |
| 19 | The Bishop 's wife had shown him out tenderly , as if he were ill . |
| 20 | The AIS officer in charge was helpful , once Myeloski had shown him his warrant-card , and helped the Englishman plan his route . |
| 21 | Instead , Fleury looked to his armament , which was impressive ; it included a sabre , unbearably sharp , a couple of wavy-bladed daggers from Malaya , and another , Indian , dagger like one of those that Hari had shown him , with two blades and a handle for the whole fist , like that of a hand-saw . |
| 22 | As soon as Fosdyke had taken the pictures , she felt that she had shown him too much of her private life and put out her hand to receive them back . |
| 23 | When he returned , bearing a brand new dress in a rich burgundy shade , she had shown him the blue one . |
| 24 | When he dragged out the table and the lamplight spilled onto the splodges of cadmium yellow and scarlet lake , he thought of the girl who had shown him to his dressing-room on the morning of his arrival . |
| 25 | He immediately thought of the envelope , with the valentine , that Boldwood had shown him , and suspected Bathsheba of encouraging the farmer to fall in love with her . |
| 26 | On the last morning of his captivity , on 27 November , his guards had shown him a newspaper and in particular a photograph on one of the pages . |
| 27 | She had shown him the book where it was illustrated . |
| 28 | The first Headmaster of the Bermondsey Asylum was Joseph Watson , a nephew of Thomas Braidwood , who had shown him his personal technique of teaching deaf and dumb children . |
| 29 | DeVore who had shown him the top-security files detailing the deals Klaus Ebert had struck with various Companies to destroy Curval 's own enterprise . |
| 30 | His mother had shown him lots of things , photographs and even odds and ends she 'd had as a child , but she 'd never shown him her wedding-dress . |